Sandy Hook -
From first shot to first responder was a 20 minute window. He had
approximately 1 minute per kill, so he could have accomplished his head
count with a muzzle loader rifle.Chief Instructor at bisonrma.blogspot.com

News from France, 1940 -
Military orders now forbid the French to do things which the German
people have not been allowed to do since Hitler came to power. To own
radio senders or to listen to foreign broadcasts, to organize public
meetings and distribute pamphlets, to disseminate anti-German news in
any form, to retain possession of firearms—all these things are
prohibited for the subjugated people of France.[It could never happen here, we said] New York Times, July 2, 1940 via stephenhalbrook.com

The origin of FFL's and how the Reich closed the "gun show loophole" -
By 1928, the Weimar republic was ready to enact a comprehensive
firearms law. The Gesetz über Schußwaffen und Munition (Law on Firearms
and Ammunition) required a license to manufacture, assemble, or repair
firearms and ammunition, or even to reload cartridges. A license was
also required to sell firearms as a trade. Trade in firearms was
prohibited at annual fairs, shooting competitions, and other events. Stephen Halbrook at stephenhalbrook.com

There is no legitimate act, whether by
Congress, law, the Constitution or any other means to deprive you of
your natural rights, because you are endowed with them by virtue of
being human... If you are an elected official and take any position or
advocate any law to constrain the ownership of small arms by the people,
as defined in our Constitution, you are deserving of immediate
impeachment along with both civil damages and criminal imprisonment.Karl Denninger at market-ticker.org

If you compare white populations, we have the
same murder rate as Belgium. So perhaps it's not a gun problem, it is a
demographic problem, which liberals are the ones pushing, pushing,
pushing. Ann Coulter to Hannity on Fox, via
Katherine Fung at huffingtonpost.com

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West Point investigators uncover an alarming threat -
Anti-federalists espouse strong convictions regarding the federal
government, believing it to be corrupt and tyrannical, with a natural
tendency to intrude on individuals' civil and constitutional rights...
they support civil activism, individual freedoms, and self government...
liberal worldviews are future—or progressive—oriented, says the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, as reported by Rowan Scarborough in this article at the Washington Times.

Note from Remus -This
is deeply troubling: an all-volunteer standing army whose junior
officer corps is being taught to understand the citizenry as a problem
to be solved—by them. We needn't guess who will and who will not be
fast-tracked in the, formerly our, Army. You have only to see
the intimidating random roadblocks, or smokers standing outside in
foul weather, or citizens of both sexes and all ages being invasively
searched by TSA
goons, or the otherwise puzzling drive to disarm Joe Sixpack to
understand what's being assembled in plain sight, why and by whom. And
all this at the same time a Plowshares Fund activist has been nominated for Secretary of Defense, an outfit which promises to "third world" the US military.

Description of a Popeye's in Chicago where two were murdered this Friday -
a chain link fence with barbed and razor wire encircles part of the
roof near cooling units and thick glass separates the dining area from
the cash registers. Food and money exchange hands through small openings
at the counter.[The 28th and 29th killed so far this year in Gun Free Zone Chicago]Nickeas and Ford at chicagotribune.com

Aaron Swartz
- His suicide followed an over-zealous prosecution for a
crime with no victims—by a Justice Department that has yet to prosecute
the Wall Street bankers who destroyed our economy and harmed millions
of lives.Progressive Change Campaign Committee, via
Michael Muskal at latimes.com

A Vietnamese machine gunner lies dead in his
foxhole with hundreds of shells surrounding him. The knee-deep spent
shells are silent proof that he fought to his death when Viet Cong
overran his position at the Michelin Rubber Plantation, 45 miles
northwest of Saigon. The battleground was retaken today and over a
hundred corpses recovered.
--AP Wire Photo Nov. 1965

On August 1-2, 1946, some Americans, brutalized by their county government,
used armed force as a last resort to overturn it. These Americans wanted honest
open elections. For years they had asked for state or federal election monitors
to prevent vote fraud (forged ballots, secret ballot counts and intimidation by
armed sheriff's deputies) by the local political boss. They got no help.

These Americans' absolute refusal to knuckle under had been hardened by service
in World War II. Having fought to free other countries from murderous regimes,
they rejected vicious abuse by their county government.

These Americans had a choice. Their state's Constitution -- Article 1, Section
26 -- recorded their right to keep and bear arms for the common defense. Few
"gun control" laws had been enacted.

These Americans were residents of McMinn County, which is located between
Chattanooga and Knoxville in Eastern Tennessee. The two main towns were Athens
and Etowah. McMinn County residents had long been independent political
thinkers. For a long time they also had: accepted bribe-taking by politicians
and/or the sheriff to overlook illicit whiskey-making and gambling; financed
the sheriff's department from fines-usually for speeding or public drunkenness
which promoted false arrests; and put up with voting fraud by both Democrats
and Republicans.

The wealthy Cantrell family, of Etowah, backed Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the
1932 election, hoping New Deal programs would revive the local economy and help
Democrats to replace Republicans in the county government. So it proved.

Paul Cantrell was elected sheriff in the 1936,1938 and 1940 elections, but by
slim margins. The sheriff was the key county official. Cantrell was elected to
the state senate in 1942 and 1944; his chief deputy, Pat Mansfield, was elected
sheriff. In 1946 Paul Cantrell again sought the sheriff's office.

At the end of 1945, some 3,000 battle-hardened veterans returned to McMinn
County; the GIs held Cantrell politically responsible for Mansfield's doings.
Early in 1946, some newly returned ex-GIs decided to challenge Cantrell
politically by offering an all-ex-GI, non-partisan ticket. They promised a
fraud-free election, stating in ads and speeches that there would be an honest
ballot count and reform of county government.

At a rally, a GI speaker said, "The principles that we fought for in this
past war do not exist in McMinn County. We fought for democracy because we
believe in democracy but not the form we live under in this county" (Daily
Post-Athenian, 17 June 1946, p.1 ). At the end of July 1946, 159 McMinn County
GIs petitioned the FBI to send election monitors. There was no response. The
Department of Justice had not responded to McMinn County residents' complaints
of election fraud in 1940, 1942 and 1944.

Cabela's, one of the United States' great outdoor retail stores, has
pulled out of the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show in Pennsylvania in
opposition to the ban on displays of assault rifles and high capacity
ammunition magazines.

Some big names in the hunting media and vending have stood up to the organizers of the Eastern Sports and Outdoors Show.
Following the tragic shooting in December at Sandy Hook School in
Connecticut, and President Obama's sweeping executive orders on gun
violence, many states and organizations have themselves pushed for
changes in certain gun and ammunition restrictions. Reed Exhibitions,
organizers of the show in Pennsylvania, followed suit and imposed
restrictions on the display of assault weapons and high capacity
ammunition magazines.

From their web site:

"The Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show is a unique
celebration of the authentic hunting and fishing traditions that are
cherished by millions of Americans and their families. We are proud to
celebrate these pastimes by featuring 1,200 exhibitors offering a
diverse range of products from outfitters to fishing boats and RVs, from
archery to art and from clothes to cabins.

"As a hunting-focused event, we welcome exhibitors who wish to
showcase products and firearms that serve the traditional needs of the
sport. Clearly, we strongly support the 2nd Amendment. However,
this year we have made the decision not to include certain products
that in the current climate may attract negative attention that would
distract from the strong focus on hunting and fishing at this
family-oriented event and possibly disrupt the broader positive
experience of our guests.

"ESS is proud to participate in the preservation and promotion of the
rich hunting and fishing tradition passed from generation to generation
by American families."

The show, billed as the largest on the east coast, runs from February
2-10. The effect this weekend was swift as big names in the industry
made their opinions known on social media outlets. One of the major
sponsors, Cabela's, completely pulled out of the event.

From the Cabela's Facebook page:

"Due to recent changes made by Reed Exhibitions regarding
the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show, Cabela’s will no longer sponsor
this year’s event. After careful consideration regarding Cabela’s
business practices, and the feelings of our customers, Cabela’s will,
unfortunately, not have a presence at the Eastern Sports and Outdoor
Show."

While the political theater plays out in Washington and when the
lights and cameras are not rolling as Republicans and Democrats pretend
to be opposed to one another, it hasn’t come to the point of pulling
guns on each other, yet. But that is not the case in Las Vegas, Nevada.
On Saturday about 3:45 pm police responded to a call from Democrat
Speaker-elect Marilyn Kirkpatrick alleged that Assemblyman Steven Brooks
had threatened to shoot her.
According to KTNV,

Assemblyman Steven Brooks, 40, of North Las Vegas made
threats to harm a public official Saturday afternoon, police said in a
news release Sunday morning. A source said he was arrested with a loaded
gun after threatening to shoot Kirkpatrick.

Kirkpatrick and witnesses who corroborated the allegation prompted
police to begin searching for Brooks. About 5:30 p.m., Brooks was seen
driving in the area of Carey Avenue and Mt. Hood Street, where he was
taken into custody without incident during a traffic stop.

Another Democratic source with knowledge of the situation said Brooks
publicly threatened to harm Kirkpatrick because he was unhappy with the
committee assignments given to him by Kirkpatrick. The 2013 Legislature
begins Feb. 4.

So Brooks goes off the deep end for getting an assignment he didn’t
like and decides to issue a threat of gun violence against a fellow
female Democrat. Talk about a war on women!

The Las Vegas-Review Journal reported that Brooks spent the night in custody.

Brooks was first elected in 2010 and represents Assembly District 17. He is forty years old and has four children.

Is it me or is all of the crazy people who intend on just randomly
shooting people Democrats?

Perhaps, if we are looking to be serious
about controlling guns in the hands of people who should not have them,
we should first look to see if they are registered Democrats.

New York State Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin provides video evidence
that New York, despite passing massive legislation into law against the
Second Amendment demonstrates that Democrats had even more “secret”
legislation they wanted kept from the public eye. McLaughlin provided
video evidence to demonstrate that documents his claims.

On his Facebook page, McLaughlin not only shared the video, but also the following:

Here it is. This is the video where I was asked to keep
the Democrat proposals for the NY SAFE Act away from the public. This
list was given to me by a colleague and it is not confidential.

This bill was an attack on the 2nd amendment and the Democrats
clearly wanted to dismantle the work of the Founding Fathers. None of
these amendments were included in the final bill thanks to us fighting
back. I will not stand silent while these unpatriotic proposals are
pathetically thrown at us a 11 o’clock at night:

1. Confiscation of “assault weapons”

2. Confiscation o ten round clips

3. Statewide database for ALL Guns

4. Continue to allow pistol permit holder’s information to be replaced to the public

5. Label semiautomatic shotguns with more than 5 rounds or pistol grips as “assault weapons”

6. Limit the number of rounds in a magazine to 5 and confiscation and forfeiture of banned magazines

It is the story of a 14-year-old boy
who was keeping an eye on his siblings while his dad ran a quick errand
Wednesday night, who ended up guarding a reported rape victim with his
hunting knife as an ex-convict battered at the door and threatened to
kill them all. The alleged rapist eventually tried to set the house on
fire, with the children inside.

James Persyn was watching television in
his Shepherd, Michigan home– his 11-year-old sister playing with their
2-year-old brother– when he heard a frantic battering at the door.

“Her voice was, like, she was going to
die if I didn’t open that door,” James recalled, so he looked at his
sister and they quickly made the decision to let the woman in.

The woman was an alarming sight. She
had clear packing tape wrapped around her body. There were bruises on
her face. She was cradling one of her arms, which she said was broken
after she leaped from the vehicle as Ramsey was driving down South
Mission.

About $700 billion a year of new spending on renewable power,
low-carbon transport and energy efficiency is needed to meet the United
Nations goal to cap temperature rises, a report for the World Economic
Forum showed.

That cash is needed in addition to the $5 trillion a year countries
must spend on infrastructure for agriculture, transport, power and water
through 2020, according to a report released today by the consultant
Accenture Plc for the forum’s Green Growth Action Alliance.

“This development needs to be greened by re-evaluating investment
priorities,” former Mexican President Felipe Calderon, chairman of the
alliance, wrote in a forward to the report. “There remains a
considerable shortfall in investment. Closing this gap is our collective
task and one that we cannot afford to fail.”

The World Bank says the planet is on track to warm by 4 degrees
Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) this century, double the level deemed
safe by scientists working in a UN process.

Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will eat for a lifetime.2013 White House Revision:

Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with unlimited free minutes,cash for his clunker, food stamps, section 8 housing, free contraceptives,Medicaid, ninety-nine weeks of unemployment insurance, free medications and he will vote for Democrats the rest of his life ----- and even after he's deceased.

The Culpeper Minute Men were composed of 300 men from Orange, Culpeper and Fauquier Counties. Their Major was Thomas Marshall of Fauquier, who was John Marshall's father. John Marshall was also in the unit and both resided in Fauquier along with Richard Henry Lee. The town I grew up in from five on was Marshall, Fauquier County, Virginia. It was named Salem during the Late Unpleasantness, but changed to Marshall thereafter. A community of 600 when I was a child and but 1,200 now. In the middle of Mosby Country and where he disbanded. Mosby Troop Disbandment Monument

Assault-rifle
owners statewide are organizing a mass boycott of Gov. Cuomo’s new law
mandating they register their weapons, daring officials to “come and
take it away,” The Post has learned.

Gun-range owners and
gun-rights advocates are encouraging hundreds of thousands of owners to
defy the law, saying it’d be the largest act of civil disobedience in
state history.

“I’ve heard from hundreds of people that they’re
prepared to defy the law, and that number will be magnified by the
thousands, by the tens of thousands, when the registration deadline
comes,’’ said Brian Olesen, president of the American Shooters Supply,
one of the largest gun dealers in the state.

Some folks in Albany apparently forgot how the American Revolution actually started.
The
British decided they would try to learn exactly who had muskets, ball
and powder -- and intended to confiscate same. They sent a force to do
exactly that, and were met by 70-odd Minutemen at Lexington Common,
bearing arms.

The British ordered the Colonists to surrender their weapons. The Colonists refused.
Nobody is quite sure who shot first, but that was the actual start of the American Revolution.

500 people headed out to the Black Sheep parking lot to join the Second
Amendment Rally that was taking place on Saturday afternoon. Many
people had rifles and assault rifles slung across their backs,
protesting President Obama's proposed ban assault rifles. It was all a
part of the National Gun Appreciation Day. There were rallies in 49
states around the same time. Most of the rallies were at the state
capitols, but many people in North Idaho didn't want to drive the eight
hours to Boise. So they decided to form their own rally.

In
Spokane, the owner of Sharp Shooting also wanted to celebrate Gun
Appreciation Day. Robin Bell decided to host a couple seminars at her
shooting range. Both of them dealt with how to be a responsible gun
owner. Bell told us that she was doing more of a "Gun Education Day",
just because she has noticed more and more new gun owners, all with the
same questions. She went over many things in these seminars, including
information on how to purchase a gun legally, how to get a concealed
pistol license, what to look for in a new gun, how to store it safely,
and more on the pending gun laws.

Another part to the Gun
Appreciation Day at Sharp Shooting were specials on guns. Bell said that
she has seen interest in guns explode in the past couple months.
"Anytime there is talk about gun control, the number of people that come
in increases. We have never seen anything like this, this is way
different that previous issues before," Bell said.

In fact, the
shop has been so busy, they can't keep up. Bell said that they have been
low on different guns and ammunitions for months, and that some gun
production companies are backed up 2 1/2 years on orders.

Nearly ten years ago, TSA introduced its first backscatter x-ray
machine in an airport. The technology became instantly controversial
due to its ability to produce nude images of airport passengers.
Privacy issues were taken to court, but the liberal courts ruled that
national security was more important than a person’s privacy and
modesty.

In an attempt to appease the public, TSA placed the people viewing
the scans in a closed off room where they would have no contact or line
of sight with the person being scanned. However, this failed to quell
the complaints that continued to flood the airport screeners.

Another concern that has been raised with the backscatter x-ray
scanners was a health issue, especially for travelers who flew
frequently. Were frequent flyers being exposed to harmful amounts of
radiation? The question remains unresolved which is why TSA officials
recently contracted the National Academy of Sciences to study the scanners and their effects on the human body.

At the moment, the backscatter x-ray machines are being used in 30
airports in the US. They had plans to expand their use, until the
company that provides the scanners and software said that they could not
meet the congressionally ordered deadline to provide privacy software
for the 174 scanners used at the 30 airports.

Rapiscan,
notified TSA that they will not be able to meet the deadline, so TSA
has cancelled its contract with Rapiscan and has announced plans to pull
all of the backscatter x-ray scanners out of the airports. They will
be replaced with the millimeter wave scanners that are currently being
used in 170 airports.
These scanners have privacy software that prevents the person from
viewing the scans of being able to see a clearly defined nude image of
the passengers.

The removal of the backscatter x-ray scanners should alleviate the
concerns over privacy and over the harmful effects of frequent scans.
The millimeter wave scanners, at least for now seem to be the answer to
both concerns.

Hello and thank you all for the continued interest and support in the Mosin magazine project. Thank you for all your emails and inquiries and my apologies if I wasn't able to return them all. As some of you know, I run another company which specializes in custom fabrication and eats up most of my time and attention. I think I finally have to begrudgingly admit that I simply don't have the time and bandwidth right now to produce the mags myself. I would still definitely like to produce them, but I think I'll need a little help.

What I would like to do is open up discussions with anyone out there who might have the capability to do a medium to large-scale production of the mags. I will provide the prototypes, 3D renders, and my input and guidance along the way, but I'm looking for a company to basically run with the idea and I will take an understandably smaller slice of the pie, in more of a "licensing" sort of arrangement.
I believe that the product has a lot of potential and I hate to see the project stagnate for lack of time.

If you are interested, please contact me at "datamancer@datamancer.net" and tell me a little about your company and yourself. I want to do business with someone that has experience in this industry and is above all else, trustworthy and honest.
Thanks for the continued enthusiasm and support, folks. I really appreciate it.

Mass turnout includes thousands in New York and hundreds in Connecticut, New Hampshire and TexasMinnesota state Rep. Tony Cornish said he would push to allow 21-year-olds to carry guns on college campus

Thousands of gun advocates
gathered peacefully Saturday at state capitals around the U.S. to rally
against stricter limits on firearms, with demonstrators carrying rifles
and pistols in some places while those elsewhere settled for waving
hand-scrawled signs or screaming themselves hoarse.The
size of crowds at each location varied - from dozens of people in South
Dakota to 2,000 in New York. Large crowds also turned out in
Connecticut, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Washington state. Some
demonstrators in Olympia, Wash., Phoenix, Salem, Ore., and Salt Lake
City came with holstered handguns or rifles on their backs. At the
Kentucky Capitol in Frankfort, attendees gave a special round of
applause for 'the ladies that are packin'.

It now appears likely that Gen. Mattis, a Marine Corps legend, will
leave his post as head of America’s most important combatant command in
March, several months earlier than planned. Ricks continues:

Why the hurry? Pentagon insiders say that he rubbed
civilian officials the wrong way — not because he went all “mad dog,”
which is his public image, and the view at the White House, but rather
because he pushed the civilians so hard on considering the second- and
third-order consequences of military action against Iran. Some of those
questions apparently were uncomfortable. Like, what do you do with Iran
once the nuclear issue is resolved and it remains a foe? What do you do
if Iran then develops conventional capabilities that could make it
hazardous for U.S. Navy ships to operate in the Persian Gulf? He kept
saying, “And then what?

Inquiry along these lines apparently was not welcomed — at least in the CENTCOM view.

n the most strident warning over gun control
to President Obama yet, the Utah Sheriffs' Association is pledging to go
to war over any administration plan to take guns away, even if it means
losing their lives.Calling the Second Amendment a sacred
right of citizens to protect themselves from "tyrannical subjugation,"
the association state elected sheriffs said in a new letter, "we are prepared to trade our lives for the preservation of its traditional interpretation."

Theirs is the first meaningful proof that some in law enforcement and the military are preparing to fight federal forces if the president wins his goal of sweeping gun control.

In a direct warning to Obama, the FBI and
other agencies, the sheriffs wrote: "Make no mistake, as the
duly-elected sheriffs our our respective counties, we will enforce the
rights guaranteed to our citizens by the Constitution. No federal
official will be permitted to descend upon our constituents and take
from them what the Bill of Rights--in particular Amendment II--has given
them."

In the first installment of this series,
if you missed it, I ordered six M1 Garands from the Civilian
Marksmanship Program, or CMP. The premise is that now is the time to
buy these historical treasures, before they dry up and get really
expensive, like the 1903 Springfield has since it dried up through the
CMP. There are a few details I have learned since that first article,
partially from a post on the CMP forum. I wish the members had
commented on our article, which was read over 45,000 times the first
day it was out, so we’ll correct a couple things, and lets go shoot the
guns!

I guess the most important thing they mentioned is that I
missed some kind of rule that you are not allowed to re-sell them. This
is a pretty big point wouldn’t you say? But for the life of me, after
scouring the CMP website, I find no evidence of this whatsoever. In
fact the site has no “rules” section at all, and the sales page
specifically talks about Garands being hot collector’s items, which
implies that you would horse trade them like any other collectible.
Furthermore, there is no agreement in any way, shape, or form that you
sign on the sales application
, however there is a liability waiver.

Therefore, unless one of the
geezers wants to come and comment here, and explain exactly from where
that comment is derived, I am going to consider it a dead or non-issue.
And no, by the way, none of these guns we ordered will be sold anytime
soon.

Next.The biggest mistake in the first article was in my description of the RM1SASSP, Springfield Service Grade Special, $950.

Professional golfer Phil Mickelson told reporters Sunday that he is
considering “drastic changes” in response to state and federal income
tax hikes — including possibly leaving the United States.

“It’s been an interesting off-season. And I’m going to have to make
some drastic changes. I’m not going to jump the gun and do it right
away, but I will be making some drastic changes,” Mickelson said during a press conference following the Humana Challenge golf tournament in La Quinta, Calif.

When pressed by reporters about whether those “drastic changes” could
include leaving California or even the United States, the four-time
major championship winner didn’t foreclose the possibility. But he made
clear the reason he is considering such drastic options is the massive
tax burden he now shoulders.

Domestic terrorist Bill Ayers is set to be a keynote speaker at the annual meeting for the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) next month in Atlanta, GA.

ATE's website for the meeting describes Ayers' work on the topic of education. It fails to mention any of his prior radical activities, including his domestic terrorism activities, political actions from his days in the Weather Underground, or that he is a self-proclaimed "Communist--with a lower case c."

By whitewashing the most prominent aspects of Ayers's resume and passing off a domestic terrorist as an appropriate and benign speaker at their meeting, ATE is taking a radical political position.

As for Ayers, there is no better way for him to continue his documented attempts to influence youth than by facilitating his access to educational institutions.

As recently as last December EAGnews.org obtained footage of Ayers speaking to students and educators at New York University (NYU). There he explained the importance of using the "classroom" as the place to cultivate change:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, bracing for a challenge in
the 2014 elections, promised Saturday to try to block President Barack
Obama's gun-violence initiatives in a taped telephone recording sent
across Kentucky.

"President Obama and his team are doing
everything in their power to restrict your Constitutional right to keep
and bear arms," McConnell said in the recording. "Their efforts to
restrict your rights, invading your personal privacy and overstepping
their bounds with executive orders, is just plain wrong."

Jesse
Benton, McConnell's campaign manager, said the call went out to "several
hundred-thousand gun owners and hunters across the state."

It
came the same day that "Guns Across America" rallies were held in state
capitals across the country, including Frankfort, where participants
cradling guns jeered Obama's plans to clamp down on assault weapons and
stiffen background checks.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Sunday declined to criticize a
controversial new National Rifle Association (NRA) ad, instead charging
proponents of gun control with “hypocrisy” in the debate over gun
violence.

The freshman Texas Republican was asked on NBC’s “Meet
the Press” about the NRA ad released last week which referenced the
president’s daughters.

"Look, I'm going to let people decide to run what ads they want,” said
Cruz. “I do think there is a fundamental point here and that there is a
point of hypocrisy when it comes to gun control, that many of the
proponents of gun control are very wealthy, live in communities where
they can outsource police protection, but you have a lot of people who
are worried about preserving the safety of their own home."

"If
you're talking to a single woman living in Anacostia who has the
misfortune to live next to a crack house, to tell her she doesn't have a
constitutional right to keep and bear arms, I think, is fundamentally
wrong," he said.

Cruz accused President Obama of exploiting the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. to push his own political agenda on gun control.

"What
I don't think is constructive is what the president is doing right now,
which is within minutes of that horrible tragedy in Newtown the
president began trying to exploit that tragedy to push a gun control
agenda that is designed to appeal to...his political partisans," he
said.

Excerpt
from January 2012 Lee-Jackson Day Observance, Kinston, North Carolina,
address by Bernhard Thuersam, North Carolina War Between the States
Sesquicentennial Commission Chairman.

“I want to quote from John Esten Cooke’s Military Biography of Jackson in 1876 – he wrote of Jackson’s death:

“Apprised
that his final moment was approaching, he sent kind messages to all his
friends, the Generals and others; taking thus his leave of earth, and
sending his…farewells. He who had passed through a thousand scenes of
carnage, expired upon his bed, surrounded by weeping friends, who were
taught by that….spectacle [of] how a Christian soldier can die.”

Jackson
was a born leader, and had that supreme spirit of combativeness, the
very foundation of military success. But combativeness and military
ardor do not make a commander – enterprise is essential, and this was
the secret of Jackson’s astonishing success. His rule was never to
allow an enemy to rest, attack whenever possible, and press on until all
opposition was broken down and the day gained.

He
always preferred to arrive, by forced marches, in the face of an
unprepared enemy. A sluggish or unwary adversary was doomed already –
when he least expected it, Jackson was before him, attacking with all
the advantages of surprise. He aimed to succeed rather by sweat than
blood. Douglas McArthur’s Inchon landing in Korea was pure Stonewall
Jackson.

Jackson’s
military movements were always based upon close calculation, and he was
certainly not wanting in foresight and caution. He seemed to have
known what was in his power to achieve, and as thoroughly what was
beyond his strength. He generally kept open his lines of retreat and
provided for potential disaster.

It
may be said of him with truth, that he deserved victory. No man was
more careful in the use of every precaution to ensure success, and no
soldier was ever less indebted to sheer luck. No general ever made a
greater use of mystery. He would not permit his men to enquire about the
names of towns through which they passed – he directed his troops to
answer questions about destinations with “I don’t know.”

Until
all his arrangements were made, no adversary could draw him into
action. When the final moment came, he attacked with all his strength –
if one assault failed, he made a second. If this failed, he sent in the
reserve, if this didn’t retrieve fortune, he placed himself in front of
his troops to conquer or die. His battle cry was “give them the
bayonet!”

Napoleon
trusted his star, and Jackson it is rightly said, believed in his
destiny -- and the Lord of Hosts – for his ability to gain success
against his enemies. There were no half measures with him, he always
favored decisive blows to his enemy. Limited wars such as Korea and
Vietnam would not have interested him.

He
was the only Southern general in favor of attacking the Northern
invader at Fredericksburg; at night and to drive him relentlessly into
the river. At Port Republic he said “if the President will give me
60,000 men, I will be in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in two weeks.” One
certainly saw much of Stonewall Jackson in another Southern general --
George S. Patton.

But
Jackson was not a hard man. On the field he was absorbed with his task –
but his bearing, his smile and the ready hand to his cap, were always
courteous, and never seemed to lose the simple and modest air of kindly
good Christian breeding.

Had
the war closed with Southern military success and his life intact, it
is not likely he would have been a man of politics. It is certain he
would have been a dominant man, and if dragged into the presidency would
have administered government in accordance with his views of Christian
right-thinking.

As
a man, his virtues were recognized even by his opponents. Humble before
his Maker, gentle in daily life, a sincere politeness to every human
being, steadfast in purpose, and when fully aroused, as in the crisis of
battle, he was sublime in the fire of his spirit.

As
we all know here, his religion was his life. It was the broad
foundation of all his thoughts and words and deeds. He seemed to live,
consciously, under the very eye of God, and shaped all his actions with
reference to Divine approval. The question was always: “Am I conforming
my life to the will of God.”

No
stain of insincerity, meanness, or vanity ever marred his character,
the character which combines the loftiest virtues of the gentleman, the
soldier, and the Christian. He sleeps now, cold to praise and blame –
and an example to us all.”

Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman, North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission. www.ncwbts150.com

Bevo Francis (32) during a 1954 game. His N.C.A.A. single-game scoring
record of 113 points stood until Tuesday night.

For 58 years, Clarence Francis, better known as Bevo, had been awaiting
the phone call he received late Tuesday night, the one that told him his
collegiate record of 113 points scored in a game was finally broken.

Bevo Francis (32) during a 1954 game. His N.C.A.A.
single-game scoring record of 113 points stood until Tuesday night.

He was amazed the mark had stood for so long.

“I knew in time somebody was going to break it,” Francis, 80, said Wednesday from his home in Washington Township, Ohio.

On Tuesday night, Jack Taylor of Division III Grinnell College scored 138 points, smashing the record set by Francis, who was a 6-foot-9 center for Rio Grande College in Ohio.

On Feb. 2, 1954, inside the Jackson High School gymnasium in Ohio,
Francis made 38 of 70 shots and added 37 free throws against Hillsdale
College of Michigan to set an N.C.A.A. mark that stood for nearly six
decades.

Francis said he and his wife, Jean, got a telephone call from a friend
Tuesday night informing them of Taylor’s performance. Considering how
much the game has changed since he played, Francis was surprised his
mark stood for so many decades.

“When I played we didn’t have the 1-and-1, we didn’t have the 3-point, nothing,” Francis said.

Dr. Alveda King, niece of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King,
Jr., tells Newsmax TV that she has “mixed emotions” about President
Obama’s plans to use her uncle’s Bible to take the oath of office for
his second term in the White House.

“I have been having mixed emotions about President Obama using the
Lincoln Bible and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Bible at his
inauguration,” King said in an exclusive interview this week. “I think
by the time I’m actually sitting there observing this – I’ll be watching
it on television – I think the mixed emotions will be gone and I’ll
just be sad.”

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.